[ATTACH] [ATTACH] My mom just found another of dads papers, appears to be a gate pass.
Appears to be a Naval sword. I think I read somewhere that 2 holes in the tang indicate an older blade that was cut down to conform to ww-2 specs....
Dad never told me anything personally about the war except that he was in the Phillipines and that he boxed in the navy. Is there any way to look...
What is fold 3 ? Will I get all this stuff from Vetrecs ?
How did you find my father on a muster roll ? I googled the OBrien and got a site with a muster roll but he wasnt on it. Seems like an awful lot...
[ATTACH] Thanks for all the info guys ! Heck I thought 6 weeks of boot camp an you were off to war, looks as if he missed the whole thing. The A...
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[ATTACH] Ive been trying to research my dads servic history. I have his discharge paper and it shows that he enlisted in July of 43, but he wasn’t...
Ok, what I did manage to do was create an album, I think. I then put in a pic of the discharge paper, maybe you can see it now ?
I’ve been trying to upload the photo of the discharge papers but I’m getting an error alert that says the file is too large. What does that mean?...
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I was trying to but Im doing something wrong. I have it in my photo album file, tell me how to post it . This is an ipad mini 2
Well, it’s starting to look like my dads war stories were a bunch of baloney to impress my mom when they were dating. Mom found my Dads discharge...
Ok, I think I got this part, he was transferred to Subic for discharge. Sorry I’m so dense! I got my request for service records sent out to the...
Lou, Thanks for posting that document, can you tell me exactly what it means ? Everything Im finding out so far is after is after Jul. 1, 1945, so...
Ok, got it straightened out, I wasn’t supposed to put those spaces between the numbers. BUT !! Here’s a puzzle, if my dad was assigned to the...
820 48 46 is apparently not his service number, when I entered it at vetrecs.gov , it came up as invalid.
Thank You ! I had thought that he was on the O’Brien but when I searched for crew listings I didn’t find his name so I just assumed my memory was...
This letter and a form letter from President Truman are all the paperwork I have. The way I understand it , my dad was liberated by the Phillipine...
Ive been trying to look up my fathers Naval service records to find out if any medals were due to him and basically find out what he did in WW-2....